On Gard!

[David Robertson]

More information about Father Gard, whose Jargon lexicon was mentioned 
last week.  John Reinecke's "Bibliography of pidgin and creole languages" 
(1975) lists an item by him in the Smithsonian Insitution / National 
Anthropological Archive: ms. no. 1778 'Chinook Jargon' from Pawhuska, 
Oklahoma, June 1919.  It's written in a notebook.  This is 90 pages long.  
It contains prayers, hymns, catechism, formula for confession, and phrases 
in daily use.  

That Buchanan person who was also mentioned is listed by Reinecke, by last 
name only.  Apparently E.H. Thomas' book (1935)--I wouldn't have thought 
to look there--lists a manuscript by him, the whereabouts of which are not 
now known.  

--Dave R

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